Recycled Plastic Bottles on Landfill
Landfill Decomposition Rates:
Newspaper: 2 to 4 weeks or longer
Milk Carton: 5 years
Cigarette Butt: up to 5 years. & leaches toxins into the ground
Aluminum Can: 80 to 200 years
Plastic Milk Jugs: 500 years
Plastic Bags: hundreds of years
Plastic Drinking Bottles: hundreds of years
Glass Bottles: tens of thousands of years
Styrofoam: no sign of ever breaking down
(Figures from ecocomic.com)
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